u/SharpDressedBeard

Lightly edited NEF file in lightroom.

All of these are with the 18-200 VRII which is the only DX lens I own which felt appropriate even if it came out 10 years after this camera.

Overall I am pretty impressed with it. It's built like a tank and the shooting ergonomics are pretty solid. The menus and stuff are a total disaster, you basically treat this like you are shooting film. The LCD is useless and you only get a monochrome histogram.

It suffers in dynamic range, and at ISO 1600 the photos are useable but you absolutely cannot raise the shadows in post or it turns into a noisy mess of weird, streaky color noise that cannot be reduced. You have to expose for highlights here.

But hey, it's fun! And it's from the 90s! Not something I get to say that often in the DSLR world. And shout out to this ancient nicad battery - I got over 200 shots on it before it tuckered out.